Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rt2] PowerPC: decrementer clockevent driver | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Date | Fri, 18 May 2007 18:50:59 +0200 |
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On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 11:31 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: > I asked this earlier, but figured you might have a better insight. > Is their value in having 'drivers' for more than one clock source? > I'd say most (of not all) the PPC SoCs have timers on the system side > that we could provide drivers for, I'm just not sure if that does > anything for anyone.
Not necessarily for the tick/highres stuff, but clock events allows other users as well to utilize such facilities. We have no users yet, but there are drivers, which utilize special timer hardware with nice #ifdeffery to allow the driver to be shared. This might be a useful thing for such stuff.
tglx
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